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This variation is just useless.
If you take care of what happen on the board, you just can't lose... or win...
This in not a matter of traps, or whatever, play randomly and wait your opponent have 4 in a row, then block.
As 6 or more in a row do not grant victory, it's almost impossible to lose/win.

If you really want a variation for this game, just add one played in japan : when you enclose 2 stones, take them out of the board. If you take 10 stones, you also win the game. This is a very difficult variation who need good reading skills.

Interesting. It's true that I did'nt have a lot of references about Caro, just one line on Wikipedia
It looked good, but well, maybe it's not. Does others agree that this variation on Gomoku is no good? If so, I can remove it, it has not been played a lot.

About the Japanese variation, I can take a look if you can point me to some good reference material on the web for this variation of the rules.

Cheers,
Een

I will try to found some reference on this variations on the web.

Ninuki-Renju adds capturing to Go-Moku. A minor variation has been marketed under the name of Pente. A capture is made by trapping exactly two opponent pieces. The first player to either capture ten opponent pieces or place exactly five pieces of their color in a row wins.

More infos here about some variations around this
http://renju.se/rif/pente.htm

Hello,

Sorry the Caro variant is useless but there are other options.

Ninuki-Renju sounds very interesting but it changes the concept of the game a lot.

Renju on the other hand is very balanced http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renju

Hi there

I discovered Gomoku with the Ninuki variant before ever heard of BGA, and Gomoku without Ninuki (or pente).
I regret it is not available (yet ) here.
Therefore I vote (if there is such a thing) for Khator suggestion to add Ninuki as a variant.
Damned, it's a 2 years old topic ... and noone else reacted than alanka

Ninuki ou Pente est effectivement une variante devenue incontournable.

Dommage qu'elle ne soit pas implémentée ici.